It's the Brian and Larra Show on WNYC. Good Monday morning everyone.

Have you seen the cover of this week's New York magazine yet?

The headline is The Calmest Democrats in the country.

And then the subhead is, despite terrible polls and panicked pundits,

the mood inside Biden headquarters is chill.

We will have the writer of that story, New York Mag's national political correspondent,

Gabe de Benadetti on today's show. Is the Biden team like an ostrich with its head in the

sand or is everyone else running around mindlessly like a chicken without a head?

Choose your fine-feathered creature metaphor and we'll discuss.

And we'll touch on Biden's presumed opponent Donald Trump basically quoting from

Hitler's Mine Comf. Have you heard this one yet in what is probably his worst and

I'll say it most fascist slur yet against immigrants in general

we don't often play inflammatory trump clips as most of you know but we will

today and get reaction from a New York congressman because some things just can't

go ignored especially just after Trump promised to be a dictator on the subject in those other

recent interviews that you probably heard about.

And today, also New York State Assembly, Minzora, and Mamdani will be with us.

He's sponsoring that legislation that's making news now that would end the New York City

property tax exemption for Columbia University and NYU because they are

among the top 10 property owners in the city.

He would characterize them as some of the city's biggest landlords.

Not what the non-profit exemption was intended for,

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